Internally displaced people

A year after the end of the Iraq war, MSF is still providing desperately needed health care to people who were forced to flee the violence. Vera blogs...

26 Oct 2018 / 5 minute read

Anna Blideman

Nurse

Returning home after six months in Iraq

After six months in Daquq, Iraq, working in an area that was recently re-taken from the Islamic State group, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Anna writes a final blog post...

20 Jun 2018 / 2 minute read

Anna Blideman

Nurse

Iraq: Neutrality and Impartiality

Anna is working for Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Iraq. Today she blogs about the challenges of ensuring that our principles of neutrality and impartiality are understood in a country that has been torn apart by war...

09 May 2018 / 2 minute read

Anna Blideman

Nurse

A nurse in Iraq: Inshallah

Anna recently returned from her second posting with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF). She's been writing about her experiences in Kirkuk, Iraq, where she's been working with communities affected by the ongoing conflict...

27 Apr 2018 / 2 minute read

Chris McAleer

Project Coordination

The empty gates of Bentiu town

"He took one look at the body then simply looked straight up at me, and without showing any emotion, told me it was his brother"

10 Apr 2018 / 7 minute read

Natasha Reyes

Philippines: the Marawi City crisis

Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the violence in Marawi City, a regional capital in the south of the Philippines. Dr Natasha Reyes blogs about MSF's emergency response...

04 Oct 2017 / 4 minute read

A blood bag hangs in an MSF facility in Syria

Vanessa Cramond

Nurse

Blood, iron and Aisha: treating children with chronic conditions in Syria

The health system in Syria has been devastated by years of war. This means that patients who require regular treatment, often for life-threatening conditions, face a desperate search to get the care they need. Vanessa blogs about one little girl and her determined family...

19 Sep 2017 / 6 minute read

Armando 'Armandoc' Garcia

Doctor

Chad: The crossroads

Armando is a doctor working with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctor Without Borders (MSF) in Chad. Here he blogs about the significance of Lake Chad: a crossroads of violence, hope and solidarity during recent armed conflict.

04 Apr 2017 / 3 minute read

Johanna Loenn

Nurse

South Sudan: My first night on call

Johanna Lönn is a nurse from Sweden on her first assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). For seven months she'll be managing a tuberculosis department at the hospital in a protection of civilians camp in Bentiu, South Sudan.

16 Mar 2017 / 2 minute read

Johanna Loenn

Nurse

South Sudan: "It feels very much like home"

Johanna Lönn is a nurse from Sweden on her first assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). For seven months she'll be managing a tuberculosis department at the hospital in a refugee camp in Bentiu, South Sudan. The hospital is the only health centre in the camp. Here she blogs about the facilities and staff practices around the camp.

02 Mar 2017 / 3 minute read

A boy is silhouetted in a window in Kirkuk, Iraq

Mariko Miller

Nurse

Iraq: "He is too young to be so hungry, too young to understand the decisions his family had to make to survive"

Mariko Miller is a Canadian emergency nurse working with MSF in Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, where MSF teams are providing healthcare to people forced from their homes by armed conflict, and supporting emergency care in two hospitals.

10 Feb 2017 / 5 minute read

Riak

It takes a whole team: working together in South Sudan

Riak is a supply logistician in South Sudan, a country which has been affected by civil war since 2013. In the town of Bentiu, the UN has established a Protection of Civilians camp for people who have fled the conflict. Riak lives in the camp, and works to ensure that the MSF hospital has the medicines, equipment and other resources needed to provide medical care to thousands of people.

25 May 2016 / 4 minute read

Internally displaced people

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